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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Can I abdicate the throne?  |
While I usually get the giggles at arachnophobia--and I am no lover of bugs, myself, believe me--because we have Tarantulas here--ANYONE
who has been through a Recluse bite has my complete and total sympathy, and
you have every sane reason to be afraid of spiders.
Recluse bites are something that the typical person can't even conceptualize. I know a woman in Wyoming whose entire upper arm/shoulder was destroyed, by a Recluse bite. Took her nearly two years to recover, and much of the tissue in the area was necrotic, requiring drastic measures. Horrible things. While I appreciate some spiders, where we are--because they help keep the bug population down, etc.--I kill them
constantly, because I live in dread that a recluse will bite one of my cats. We're in the upper desert, and they're populous here.
Hitch